Re: [arch-general] Suggestion: switch to zstd -19 for compressing packages over xz

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:10 PM Darren Wu via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:

I have 4Mbps (512KBytes/s) 'broad'band and i7-6500U CPU. I wanna cry.

Even in a worst-case scenario like this one, the Squash compression test I linked to shows an increase from 26 secs (xz -6) to 29 secs (zstd -19), so you wouldn't be significantly impacted by this change. I hope your local authorities decide to give you real broadband in the near future, however. :-)